Blog Post Ideas for Creatives
Creative work is easy to make and hard to talk about. If you’re an artist, photographer, designer, or maker who freezes up at “what should I blog about,” these ideas are built specifically for creative work and the business behind it.
Process and behind-the-scenes
- Walk through your creative process from first idea to finished piece
- What’s in your studio, kit, or camera bag, and why
- A step-by-step look at how one specific project came together
- How you decide what to work on next
- The making of your most recent piece
Skill-building and tutorials
- A technique tutorial in your medium
- Tools or materials you’d recommend to a beginner
- How you learned your craft, and what you’d do differently
- A skill you’re currently working on improving
- Common beginner mistakes in your medium, and how to avoid them
Inspiration and perspective
- Where you find inspiration
- Creators who’ve influenced your work and how
- How your style has changed over time
- What a slow or uninspired day looks like, and how you work through it
- Themes or ideas you keep returning to in your work
The business of being creative
- How you price your work
- What you wish you knew before you started selling your work
- How you handle creative burnout
- What actually changed when your hobby became paid work
- Tools you use to run the business side of your creative practice
Clients and collaboration
- What working with you looks like, start to finish
- A recent collaboration and what came out of it
- How someone can commission or request custom work from you
- Questions people should ask before hiring a creative like you
- A project that pushed you outside your comfort zone
If you want more ideas tailored to your exact niche and audience, try the free Blog Post Idea Generator. And if you’re not sure which of these should come first, How to Choose Content Pillars can help you group them into a plan.
